CVE-2024-55881

MEDIUM

Linux Kernel - Denial of Service via KVM Hypercall Completion

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: KVM: x86: Play nice with protected guests in complete_hypercall_exit() Use is_64_bit_hypercall() instead of is_64_bit_mode() to detect a 64-bit hypercall when completing said hypercall. For guests with protected state, e.g. SEV-ES and SEV-SNP, KVM must assume the hypercall was made in 64-bit mode as the vCPU state needed to detect 64-bit mode is unavailable. Hacking the sev_smoke_test selftest to generate a KVM_HC_MAP_GPA_RANGE hypercall via VMGEXIT trips the WARN: ------------[ cut here ]------------ WARNING: CPU: 273 PID: 326626 at arch/x86/kvm/x86.h:180 complete_hypercall_exit+0x44/0xe0 [kvm] Modules linked in: kvm_amd kvm ... [last unloaded: kvm] CPU: 273 UID: 0 PID: 326626 Comm: sev_smoke_test Not tainted 6.12.0-smp--392e932fa0f3-feat #470 Hardware name: Google Astoria/astoria, BIOS 0.20240617.0-0 06/17/2024 RIP: 0010:complete_hypercall_exit+0x44/0xe0 [kvm] Call Trace: <TASK> kvm_arch_vcpu_ioctl_run+0x2400/0x2720 [kvm] kvm_vcpu_ioctl+0x54f/0x630 [kvm] __se_sys_ioctl+0x6b/0xc0 do_syscall_64+0x83/0x160 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x76/0x7e </TASK> ---[ end trace 0000000000000000 ]---

Scores

CVSS v3 5.5
EPSS 0.0020
EPSS Percentile 10.4%
Attack Vector LOCAL
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Details

Status published
Products (19)
linux/Kernel < 5.15.176linux
linux/Kernel 5.16.0 - 6.6.68linux
linux/Kernel 6.2.0 - 6.12.7linux
Linux/Linux < 5.16
Linux/Linux 5.15.176 - 5.15.*
Linux/Linux 5.15.5 - 5.15.176
Linux/Linux 5.16
Linux/Linux 5969e2435cbd7f0ce8c28d717bfc39987ee8d8f1 - 0840d360a8909c722fb62459f42836afe32ededb
Linux/Linux 6.1.122 - 6.1.*
Linux/Linux 6.12.7 - 6.12.*
... and 9 more
Published Jan 11, 2025
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026